Speedy’s Broken Mirror Club

Status: Closed

Parish: Calcasieu

Location: Sulphur

Rumored to be once be owned by Quincy Davis, who sold it to buy the Avalon Club in Basile. possibly owned by Quicy Davis- the Pine Grove Boys played there weekly in 1948: http://www.bopping.org/nathan-abshire-pope-of-cajun-accordion/ Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption: Speedy’s Broken Mirror Club, Sulphur 1947, (L-R) Harry Choates, Johnnie Mae Smirle (Manuel), Joe Manuel, Eddie Pursley, B.D. Williams, courtesy of Arhoolie Records


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Photo Credit: creekbank.net, Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Courtesy of Arhoolie Records

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